San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-01

their lodge room, Dullnig building.
Robert Wynne, one Of the shootists
in the Nicholson tragedy, was removed
to the county Jail yesterday afternoon.
-Chas. Nissen was granted his natu-
ralizatiOn papers by the district court
| yesterday.
The Uniform Division Knights OF
Pythias drill tonight at the Belknap ar
mory.
| The preliminary examination OF
Sykes Butler, al Helena, occurred yes
terday.
Alderman Hans Degener was unani-
mously reelected by the fire directors
last light as assistant chief of the de-
| partment.
The dress circle is the favorite part
Of the Grand opera house for San An
tonians.
Tomorrow is aground hog" day,
supposed to determine the weather for
the next six weeks.
Hans Lechner and party Of TyrOlers
want to revisit San Antonio. They
were fsvorites here and would be warm
ly welcomed.
"A meeting Of the Ladies Hebrew
Benevolent society will be held tomor-
row afI ernoOn at 4:30 In the vestry rooms
Of the Temple Beth Ell.
Garter & Mullaly will establish
down town branch office on Commerce
street, as soon MS Adams Il Wickes va
cate their present Office, opposite
Traders bank.
-MOllie Craig, jealous negro
woman, was before the recorder this
morning for beating and whipping an
other cOlored woman with her buggy
whip She said she whipped her BECAUSE
she wrote notes to her (MOllIe's) hus-
band, and seduCed him from her.
u. S. Commissioner Stevenson has
gone TO san Marcos on business.
Writing at an open window, with no
fires in the building, on February l, is
what no northern newspaper writer Can
do with comfort.
Sheriff Lewis finds it very hard to
collect fines from defau!ting jurors.
Austin Armstrong and wife were
fined So and costs each by Justice Barnes
this morning for simple assault upon
Roam Kelley.
The Saturday nights fights which
occurred at the Washington saloon and
on Military plaza, were settled by the
recorder today.
-Work..On the laying of track-...for the
northwestern extension is being pushed
rapidly in the city limits now, and the
force worked until after night fall last
night.
p. J. Reidy, of Tennessee, died last
| night at the Santa Rosa hospital from
consumption. His brother, Joe Reidy. is
here and is attending to the funeral ar
engagements.
"A wagon ladened with wood, broke
down on the street car track opposite
the postoffice, and street car traffic was
impeded Tor some time, in consequence
of the breakdown.
General Bee, late commissioner of
Insurance and statistics, and his family
arrived in the city this morning and will
locate here again.
-SiIvy Young, colored girl aged Is
years, from Wilson county, died yester
day in the new Third ward, from puer-
peral peritonitis.
Superintendent Smith has removed
from his residence on North Flores street
to No. Cos Oakland street.
M. X. Sinner has taken out his per-
nit to erect a 81, 900 brick residence on
South Flores street.
Judge NOonan has ordered the
sheriff to put the jurors In the Scott muir
der cases in the grand jury room and
not in the regular jury room, as that
room is unfit for human beings to in
habit.
"A committee from the First Baptist
church, consisting OF DR.. Lowry, Col.
Bradley, G. o. Mcclure, E. c. Gates. j.
Nj. Cain and DR.. Hackett, have been ap-
pointed to ascertain the advisability of
erecting new church, and are at work.
Justice McAllister heard the case of
VIM. Ferguson VS.. &. +. Sigmund, suit
for debt on contract, this morning. De-
cision of the jury was in favor of plain.
tiff.
Joseph Herman is on trial in Justice
Barnes court charged with assault by
running over a little girl of Mr.. J. E.
Lockwood.
MIR. Jacob Rudy, book-keeper for
the Lone Star Brewery, left this morn
ing for Flatonia, and from the looks of
Jake in starting, his friends think he ia
intending to be married before he re-
turns.
Superintendent Smith says he
knows OF no rule of the school board
!
outside the school rooms, and he does
not think the teachers have established
such rules.
Charley Beokman and VIM. Freeman
were out last Sunday to Mr.. Beckman's
ranch, near Robbers Cave, and inspect
I'd the marble formation recently dis
covered on this land.
Superintendent C. E. Arnold, OF the
Madison Square Sunday school, has re-
signed in order to leave for Ell Paso,
where he has accepted position in the
new National Bank established there.
The Medina County News says coal
has been discovered on Capt. Soates'
ranch at depth of 20 feet. The deposit
is not great distance from the South
ern Pacific railway, and is, hence, not
very far from San Antonio.
Beavers are thick on DEVILS river.
west of San Antonio, the railroad men
report. One brakeman on the Southern
Pacific says he saw damn constructed
across the stream by the beavers. 1t
confines water twenty feet deep. and
has been raised five feet by these orea-
lures during the present dry spell.
MIR. Geo. r. Hines reached the ripe
old age Of " years today, and is yet hale
and hearty and has the respect OF the
entire community. He celebrated the
event today with his family and the
family of Mr.. Joseph Ray, at the ranch
of the latter, a few miles from the city.
The ladies and gentlemen of the
Casino association are working hard for
their GRAND enstume hall and anntbar